fear of specific breeds?

Believe it or not, for many years I was afraid of gsds.  I was bitten as a young woman, with two small children, in the hallway of our apartment complex by the neighbors "trained guard dog" who came flying down the stairs and took a rather large chunk out of my shoulder....luckily he missed my face.  Then we had Duke, who we didn't really realize was a gsd mix when we got him as a pup and I put my fear away....obviously, since I know have six full blooded shepherds!

We had a chihuahua that bit every member of the family except my sister (that's 6 out of 7!) . I also tend to be wary around them!

I'm not really afraid of any breed of dog, but I tend to be wary of anything that freezes up when it sees new people.  Not the ones that hide and whine, the ones that completely tense up and nothing moves except their eyes.  It scares the crap out of me.  I've been bit quite a few times, but nothing serious.  I got bit on the face by a cattle dog.  It wasn't so much a bite as an open-mouth flail and it just left me with a few deep scratches, nothing that needed stitches though.  I had a pit bull redirect on me once.  I had him on the leash and he started lunging at a shepherd mix in her kennel.  I tried to pull him back while telling the other dog to sit and he turned, grabbed my arm, then turned back to the other dog.  Nothing serious but it left a nice bruise.  I still work with the dogs and they've gotten much better.  I'm not really nervous around them because they had the perfect oppurtunity to do a lot more damage, but they had enough inhibition to stop at just a small bite.  I've lost lots of flesh to the little ones though.  The thing that really made me nervous was when I was trying to give a shih-tzu puppy his vaccinations, he freaked out and started biting my hands over and over again.  If he had had his adult teeth, I'd be short a few fingers.  I tend to be a lot more careful around the little ones.  They can't take your arm off, but they might get away with a few digits.

My piano teacher as a kid had a chow and an akita, they were both really scary and bit numerous students.  Eventually, she built this huge enclosure for them and they were never allowed out.  They would attack the gate when you walked by.  God it was scary as a kid, I still get nervous around these two types of dogs.

Eh, I can't say that I'm really afraid of any breed of dog. Having dogs who are breeds (or mixes of breeds) that fall under alot of negative stereotyping, I've learned not to judge a whole breed based on individual dogs. There are breeds that I'm not particularly fond of (chihuahuas, small poodles....pretty much any lap dog)...but I can't say I'm afraid of them. I pretty much just judge dogs on an individual basis. Dogs who behave in a nervous, skittish, or otherwise unfriendly way I avoid. Ones who seems friendly, I don't. []

I am not really afriad of any particular breed of dog, I have been bitten by enough Chihuahuas that I think I am most suspicious of those when I meet one.

I'm not wary of any specific breed. I generally look to the owner and try and judge how the dog is that way. I mean if you see me walking my pit bull I would hope you wouldnt be caught off guard (I'm 5'3, 100lbs and cute as can be, ha ha ) but if you saw some scary guy with a chain around his I'm sure most would croiss the street.
If I had to pick a breed that I was on gard with it would be those lil yappy ones that strain on their leash as the owner says "oh he's nice" I am a lil wary of older dogs whom look like they really dont want to be bothered, sometimes you can just tell.

I'm not afraid of any breed.  Dogs who shun interaction with humans, or who freeze or exhibit other signs that they might aggress, are worthy of being approached with caution, though.

I don't really fear any particular breed. But I do tend to stray away from dogs we meet on the streets or parks. The only time we intereact with strange dogs is at dogparks.
 
Radar isn't all the good with strange people. If he's on a leash, and walking on his own, he'll start barking if he feels threatened. But, if we are carrying him or holding him, he'll let most anyone pet him.

This is going to sound kind of funny, but I don't like cocker spaniels.  I've been bitten 6 or 7 times in my life, only one of them serious.  Most of my bites were from cockers or cocker mix (that's the serious bite...a "cock-a-poo.")  So I don't even say hello to these dogs anymore or let them sniff more than my leg.  Granted these bites came during the 70's when cockers were overbred and most of the ones were coming from BYBs anyway.  I won't avoid them, I'm just not friendly with them. 
 
Conversely, I was also bitten by a Rottie, but some of my favorite dogs are Rotties.  I know two that are absolute doll babies, even though they are oversized. 
 
Gaia doesn't like any brindle colored dogs and she'll go right up and start jawing with them.  Xerxes doesn't like boxers, Bulldogs, and most other brachiocephalic large breeds.  (Though he adores all small dogs.)

I'm not really afraid of any breed of dog, though I am cautious around all dogs.  But when I was younger I was afraid of bull terriers for some strange reason. 

I'm not really afraid of any dogs.  It's just the dogs actions that make me scared.  If one comes running up to me barking and staring me down i'm a little scared but if a dog comes up to me wiggling it's tail looking all happy i'm not afraid no matter what the breed.  Even when I was 7, my parents walked outside and were horrified because I was romping around the yard with a strange great dane that was much larger than me. lol People tend to be afraid of my puppy lucy because she is a shepherd mix and has black and tan markings she sent a whole family into their house when she wandered into their yard yesterday.

I'll admit I'm a bit breedist. I'm not terribly fond of chihuahuas or chows. I know a lot of people out there have great ones, but all my experiences with them so far have been pretty negative. I can't count how many times I've been bitten by chihuahuas when visiting friends & my aunt had a very cranky chow that terrorized the neighborhood when I was growing up. She was kept in a fence during the day, but didn't like anyone even on her side of the street & would go nuts trying to get at 'em. My aunt loved her, but she was truly a one-person dog.
 
If I was outside & a pit ran up to me, I would also probably be in the house pretty quick. I've seen some really beautiful, sweet it bulls before, but unfortunately, there is a lot of dog fighting in town (wanna-be thugs trying to prove their manhood). An unleashed pit usually means trouble around here. [>:]

I'm not particularly scared of any specific breed, but I do get a little tense when a dog avoids eye contact with me or avoids me alltogether.  I know that these are just little signs that the dog isn't comfortable in it's current situation, and that I need to preceed with caution.